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Mentor Magic

WITH

CHRISTINE FOLEY - NOYCE MENTOR

JOSE GLORIA - NOYCE SCHOLAR

JEANNE QVARNSTROM – MODERATOR

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NOYCE 2023 INSTITUTE

JULY 10, 2023

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The Magic of Mentors

Amelia Earhart and her mentor pilot Neta Snook

In 1929, Amelia wrote to Neta, “It is long ago that we flew together at Kinner Field, California. Yes, I do remember discussions of the Koran, and cold boiled potatoes”

(Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)

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Martin Luther King, Jr. and his mentor educator Benjamin Mays

King considered Mays his “spiritual mentor” and ”intellectual father”

(Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute)

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Judith Walters – Mentor of Extraordinaire of Women in Science

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Walters today is chief of the Neurophysiological Pharmacology Section of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

As a student at Yale, her mentor was Dr. Robert Roth, and Walters praised him for his unbiased and supportive style.

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( National Institutes of Health, 2015)

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The Noyce Mentor Program

  • Each Noyce Scholar Receives a Mentor for Two Years
  • Mentors are Teaching in the Scholar's STEM Discipline
  • Mentor and Scholar Meet Six or More Times Each Year
  • Mentor and Scholar Set Annual SMART Goals
  • Mentor and Scholar Discuss Many Topics:  T-TESS Appraisal, TExES Certification, "Cold Boiled Potatoes"

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Professor Christine Foley- SWTJC Biology, Del Rio

Jose Gloria—Noyce Scholar

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Panel Questions

1. Introduce yourselves & tell your major or teaching discipline

2. What were your expectations for being a mentor/mentee at the start?

3. How did you get to know your mentor/mentee to build a trusting relationship?

4. How frequently did you meet?  Describe your meetings.

5. Share your Goal Setting form and discuss how you created it.  Did you achieve your goals?

6. The mentor/mentee relationship is a key component of the Noyce Scholars program.  How did the mentor/mentee relationship help you?  Share your experiences.

7. Compare your first expectations (question 2) with your experiences over the year.  How would you now define what being a mentor or mentee means to you?

8. Consider your mentor/mentee a “Star”.  What in your opinion makes her/him a star?

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“A mentor empowers a person to see a possible future and believe it can be obtained.”

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